Sarah Llewellyn
Composer & Sound Artist
About Sarah
Inventive and versatile Sarah has composed for orchestras, chamber ensembles, choirs, circus bands, vocalists and actor musicians . She also creates soundscapes, electro-acoustic work and spoken word pieces.
Some of Sarah’s musical highlights include running away with the circus, Shakespeare under the midnight sun, a giant baby and her composer in residence with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Current projects include, Mind The Gap’s climate change street show LEAVE THE LIGHT ON FOR ME, touring festivals June – Sept 22 and a A TALE OF TWO CITIES Chung Ying Theatre, spring 2023 at the Hong Kong Cultural Sector.
Sarah is represented by Kate Weston, Fillingham Weston Associates.
Sarah conducting rehearsal - War and Peace - Giffords Circus
Skilled in composition, arrangement, orchestration, music directing, sound design, music production, recording, performing, workshop leading and teaching.
Sarah also works in community outreach and with charities. Over the pandemic she wrote the song, Hold Fast with J Fox and G Winstanley for a well being NHS film by Wake The Beast, she also ran creative online workshops and worked as composer with Afrocats – a charity working with refugee and asylum seekers in Manchester, she has produced music for UK Charity Abortion Rights films and she continues to collaborate with her sister, Leah, on films for ReachAnother Foundation – a medical charity working in Ethiopia for babies with spina bifida and hydrocephalus.
Current & Recent Productions
Leave the Light on For Me
ON NOW. A joyous and rebellious outdoor performance that explores climate change and justice from a fresh perspective.
Hold Fast
LATEST RELEASE - A hopeful song for our times, single now released. Inspired by interviews with NHS workers taken during the pandemic.
The Last Cuckoo: Dennis Gould
Brimming with poetry, colour and stories this short film shines a light on the life and beliefs of poet, activist, artist and cyclist Dennis Gould.
A Tale of Two Cities
2023 Production, Hong Kong, Chung Ying Theatre. Live vocals combine with a distinctive electro-acoustic score.
ZARA
An epic, outdoor theatre event. A soaring score, a giant baby, over 100 performers and an actual tank! Halifax Piece Hall and London Imperial War Museum.
Composer Residency with the RSC
Sarah Llewellyn Composer in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company 2017-2019 - Cameron Mackintosh composer in residence scheme.
Begin The World Over Again
Inspiring Women and Women Who Are Inspiring. Podcast for Walk the Plank and WCLM
The Wind Singer
A new musical in development. The Wind Singer based on the novel by William Nicholson. Book and lyrics by Teresa Howard, music and soundscape by Sarah Llewellyn.
Photo by Leah Llewellyn
Leave The Light On For Me - Tour 2022
Photo by Michelle George